New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-27
NOTEsOF THE EMPIRE STATE.
BAD BUILDING AT BINGIAMTON.

NEWSPAPER QUARREL-CORP0RAL PUNISHMENT
RIGHT OF WAY.
BrNGHAMroN. March 26.-During the past few
weeks the people Of this city to have awals'
ened to the fact that veneered brick buildings are
dangerous There WAS @ slight discussion OF tins
question two months ago, but nothing was done
and the Candall Hotel, the building which caused
il, was pushed along. A recent petition OF cornell
Harley, another builder, to erect one OF the Same
style at the corner Of Court and Canal sts'.
brought UP the question again, and In all propa'
bity Nr. Iarlcy's petition Will not bc grantee
There are now too many OF these Dtiiloluss In Ih0
uty and all practical firemcn here declare theh'
dangerous .
At Ouaqlaga fourteen miles east of this clty'
there is some excitement Four months ago tne
Ouaquaga Prospecting and Mining Company pcsio'
boring for gas and oil. They are now down l,'oo
feet and the indications such that men from
the olfelds of Northern Pennsylvania have come
there. so inquisti,c and meddcsOmc are these
men that o guard has been placed over the shaft
and works day and night, and no leases Of adj
joining land will be granted.
Bnghamton's Sunday newspaper enterprise
seems embarrassed just at present. 1t had been
decided to call the new Journal "1be Dispatch. y
and April 3 was the day set for its advent, but
It's leading mind arrested last "Wednesday at
" illiamsport charged with cmbezzlement. Ihere
is little doubt but that he is an honest man and
his friends now dcclue that this arrest Is merely
the outcome of Newspaper quarrel NC Is
CHARGED with ha, ing appropriated ard shipped 70
IItghamton some 800 pounds Of type ana CiheT
material the property Of The Keystone Saturday
News with which he was connected.
Two years or more ago the Board OF Education
decided to abolish corporal punishment IN tho
schools here The orders were very strict, ano
teachers though OutrageOsly abused must felrap
from administering the needed rod. Several az
eravatcd cases of juvenile uglIncsS have at last
caused the Board to abolish the law and The ur'
CT in who now kicks his teacher in the lace, ~
Young Ucihl treated Mss Roxic Eldrldgc. may eX'
pect justice. ,-.,.
The light OF way for the Observation-Disclosures
mott Railway is now being secured with Illlo
trouble from the State line south down the Wya-
lising Valley. but the farmers OF The Checaun'
Valley northeast from the state line, seem To
think they have the enterprise IN their power ana
can asl, for land what they choose. In this They
are mistaken for the route by Pierre Creek or
through the hills back of ROscville is available
and by either of hese routes the land ard ties cap
be had for the a.lting. Then too there Is stron1
movement in the south part of the city TOWARD
securing some kind of shipping facilities, whic
this road If it entered this way, would furnish.
The action Of I,r Edison IN moving TO increase
the license on wine and beer while The CroSoy DID,
was up IN the Assembly last Wednesday has salts
fled his critic, here that he is strong temperance
man AMI that his absence fCm the chamber at the
ri,po of the first vote on the bill was not lnteD
tIOnu. -,
f. VI. 1ierncy, If Su.quchanna, ana john W
Kennedy, of Elmiia, have purchased of AlcAande'
f. Andrews the lot at the cOIn"r oil Lewis an"
tbcian q SIS. near the dcrot, and VIII some tim'
next ummcr erect thereon large hotel coslihe
about $4,000. Tie price paid for the lot waS
$4,000.